Angry Harvest
Bittere Ernte
Release: 1985-02-20
·Runtime: 101m
·★ 6.2
Drama
Romance
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
ZDF
CCC Filmkunst
Cast
Margit Carstensen
as Eugenia
Kurt Raab
as Maslanko
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Leon Wolny
Elisabeth Trissenaar
as Rosa Eckart
Wojciech Pszoniak
as Cybulkowski
Käte Jaenicke
as Anna
Hans Beerhenke
as Kaspar
Isa Haller
as Magda / Zosia
Klaus Abramowsky
as Herr Rubin
Tilly Lauenstein
as Frau Kaminska
Anita Höfer
as Pauline
Gerd Baltus
as Geistlicher
